The Art Major

The Art Major is designed to provide a concentration in the visual arts, within the context of a liberal arts education.

Our majors have developed careers in a wide range of art-related areas including advertising, gallery and museum curating, graphic design and web design, pottery, interior design and architecture. But the major is not directed towards the development of job skills in any one area, it is intended to broaden the range of understanding of the arts for each major while helping each major develop the media skills they need to use art expressively.

Requirements for the Art Major

GEP Integrated Learning Component: students must select three courses from the following:

Required

PHL 310

Philosophy of Art

Choose 2 from the following:

(note: some courses below may have prerequisites – please consult the appropriate department for further information)

CLA 301	The Art and Archaeology of Greece
CLA 302	The Art and Archaeology of Egypt and Italy
CLA 203	Readings In Classical Tragedy
CSC 341	Introduction to Graphics
CSC 342	Computer Vision
CSC 343	Interactive 3D Game Development
COM 200	Communications Theory and Practice
COM 201	Ethics in Communication
ENG 483	Seminar in Narrative Form
ENG 344	Screenwriting
ENG 241	Creative Writing: Introductory Workshop
ENG 332	Playwriting
ENG 333	Reading, Writing & Adapting for Theatre: Dramaturgy
FRE 462	Contemporary Francophone Cinema
GRM 320	Contemporary German Cinema
HIS 367	Postwar America, 1945 to the Present
HIS 369	American Ideas
HIS 386	American Environmental History
HIS 387	Popular Culture in the United States
ITA 402	L’italiano al cinema ll
ITA 430	Images of Rome in Literature and Film
JPN 330	Japanese Film and Culture
LAT 304	Drama
MAT 231	The Mathematics of Music
POL 326	Political Sociology: The Mass Media in American Politics
PSY 220	Sensation and Perception
SPA 449	Spanish Literature and Film
THE 150	Religious Vision in Film and Fiction

Major Concentration: ten courses

Four fundamental courses chosen from

ART 101, 102	Introduction to Art History I and II
ART 104	The Experience of Architecture
ART 121	Introduction to Studio Art
ART 133	Drawing I
ART 135	Painting I
ART 141	3-D Studio Art
ART 144	Ceramics I
ART 172	Traditional Photography I
ART 173	Digital Photography I

Four additional courses within a specialization, three of which must be taken prior to the capstone courses

One might "specialize" in Art History or Studio (ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, sculpture)

Plus our capstone courses:

ART 495	Senior Project I
ART 496	Senior Project II

Up one level: Art Department